Italy

Italy

Italian Senate backs train link with France, widening coalition rift

Italian Senate backs Lyon-Turin high-speed rail link, widening coalition rift

07/08/2019

Italy

Forty migrants rescued by German charity ship arrive in Malta

A group of migrants were rescued by Sea Eye's Alan Kurdi ship. The ship arrived in Malta after being banned from Italy.

03/08/2019

Italy

Italian police arrest six over deadly nightclub stampede

Six people including five teenagers and a 39-year-old woman who had accompanied her daughter to the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in Corinaldo, were killed in the stampede on December 8, 2018.

03/08/2019

Italy

Italy's Matteo Salvini accused of racism after 'dirty gypsy' comments

Italian social media users have said Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is "out of control" following a recent Twitter post in which he referred to a Romani woman as a "dirty gypsy".

02/08/2019

Green News

From jets to yachts: Is Google's climate change camp hypocritical?

The most exclusive event on the A-list calendar centred around environmental concerns this year. But were they missing something?

01/08/2019

Italy

US teen implicated in policeman murder 'didn't know friend was armed'

The father of a US teen arrested for the murder of an Italian policeman murder said his son didn't know his friend was armed.

01/08/2019

Italy

Salvini bans new migrant rescue boat from entering Italian waters

Matteo Salvini has banned another rescue ship carrying forty migrants from entering Italian waters. The Alan Kurdi is run by German charity Sea-Eye and is heading towards Lampedusa.

01/08/2019

Italy

50 years after the moon landing Matera honours the Apollo 11 mission

In partnership with Matera 2019

Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019, celebrates one of its most famous sons; Rocco Petrone, who went on to become a mechanical engineer in the US and made a fundamental contribution to Nasa's Apollo 11 mission

31/07/2019

Italy

Rome strikes deal with five EU nations over stranded migrants

An Italian coastguard ship carrying migrants rescued at sea was given permission to dock but not to disembark in Sicily last weekend. Medical staff allowed to tour the ship found that the 116 people on board had to share a single toilet.

31/07/2019

Italy

Watch: Bologna’s homeless show tourists a different side to the city

The northern Italian city of Bologna is accustomed to firsts - it was the first western city to set up a university course, the first to abolish slavery and now, it has also become one of the first places in the world offering tours guided by homeless people.

30/07/2019

Italy

Italian MP could lose her seat for using her birth name on the ballot

'If I had died, how could I have been resurrected?' - Euronews speaks to the Italian MP who lived a life in witness protection afraid of the Mafia finding her, and who is now being challenged by her political rival for resuming her 'dead' identity.

30/07/2019

Italy

EU seeks countries to take in migrants stranded at Italian port

Germany says it is ready to take some migrants, refused permission to disembark from an Italian coastguard vessel in Sicily.

30/07/2019

Green News

Rome is offering credit on public transport in return for plastic

Return plastic bottles for recycling at designated points around the city.

30/07/2019

No Comment

Italy mourns policeman killed, two US teens in jail

Thirty-five-year-old police officer Mario Cerciello Rega was stabbed to death in a central neighbourhood of Rome on Friday, July 26th, while trying to arrest two young American citizens who were charged with the murder.

29/07/2019

Italy

Watch again: Italian policeman mourned in US murder suspect probe

Italian police investigate picture of blindfolded US murder suspect as hundreds gathered to mourn the policeman allegedly murdered by two American teenagers .

28/07/2019

No Comment

Enormous 500-metre pizza unites the ingredients of Italy

In Bologna, a 500-metre long pizza was filled with the characteristic ingredients of all of Italy's regions.

28/07/2019

Italy

Thousands resume protests against Turin-Lyon high-speed railway link

It's expected to cost €26 billion to complete with the construction of a trans-alpine tunnel swallowing up over €18 billion.

27/07/2019

Italy

Italy agrees to resume controversial Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link

It's an ambitious and highly-controversial engineering project that involves finishing a near 60 kilometre-long tunnel under the Alps.

27/07/2019

Italy

Italy shaken as policeman stabbed to death in Rome

A policeman who had just returned from his honeymoon was stabbed to death in Rome while trying to make an arrest, reports AFP.

27/07/2019

Italy

High speed rail project gains support of Italian Prime Minister

Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, has confirmed his support for the high-speed rail project between Turin and Lyon - known as TAV. But the project has been a great source of friction between the coalition partners of the government.

26/07/2019

World

Controversy to play supporting role at the 76th Venice Film Festival

Controversy to play supporting role alongside blockbusters at Venice Film Festival

26/07/2019

Italy

Italian PM stands by League over Russia funding scandal

Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte has stood by Matteo Salvini's League party amid accusations it sought illicit funds from Russia.

24/07/2019

Italy

Italy hit by four-hour train delays after suspected arson fire

Passengers in Italy experienced delays and train cancellations after a suspected arson fire in Italy.

22/07/2019

Italy

Watch: Mount Etna erupts spewing lava and ash into the sky

Mount Etna in Sicily has erupted spewing lava and ash into the air and forcing the closure of two airports in nearby Catania

20/07/2019

Cult

Germany returns painting stolen by the Nazis to the Uffizi Gallery

'Vase of Flowers' by the Dutch master Jan van Huysum has been returned to Italy after being stolen by German soldiers in 1943.

20/07/2019

Italy

Italy 'overtakes France in tourism stakes'

Italy had more overnight stays by foreign nationals than tourist hotspot France, it's been claimed.

20/07/2019